9/5/18 Gareth Porter on DHS ‘Russian Hacking’ Claims

Gareth Porter rejoins the show for an update on the Russian election hacking allegations. He reviews the evidence as presented by various media outlets and intelligence agencies, explaining why each story doesn’t amount to much of anything on its own, and thus we shouldn’t conclude, simply because there are a lot of different stories, that there’s something to the overall narrative of Russian meddling. If anything, in fact, it’s the intelligence community itself that is trying to call the 2016 election results into question.

Discussed on the show:

“How the Department of Homeland Security Created a Deceptive Tale of Russia Hacking US Voter Sites” (Consortium News)

1 Comment

charrob
on September 9, 2018 at 3:23 pm

Great interview and discussion on hacking State election information sites. Interesting analysis on documents submitted by Reality Winner to the Intercept and how there was no hard evidence presented in these documents but rather simply an analyst’s opinion.

The end of the interview was a little disappointing. Yes, it’s _possible_ Russia hacked the DNC server: but what _exactly_ is their proof that they did so? The DNC has never even given the U.S. gov’t that server to investigate this claim; it seems the U.S. gov’t is going entirely on the word of Crowdstrike which are basically Clinton supporters. Additionally Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, stated that it was he who met a DNC insider and Seth Rich intermediary at a wooded area near American University in D.C. and physically obtained the DNC documents which he physically gave to Wikileaks. Additionally there were tons of emails on Seth Rich’s computer between himself and Wikileaks. So 2 parts, as Gareth mentioned: the hacking into the DNC server which the public has seen no evidence for; and the transferring of physical documents which Craig Murry stated he did.